There are two great "BECAMEs" in the New Testament.
1.) The Word became flesh (John 1:14).
2.) The last Adam became a life giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45)
This touches the economical trinity. What God is cannot be separated from the His move, His operation, His way of managing His household.
OIKONOMIA (economy) means the "law of the house". It means the management of a household. God's economy is His operation to carry out His way of managing His household.
The word is also translated "stewardship" and sometimes "dispensation".
For God to distribute Himself into man He went through these two great "BECAMEs" of the Logos becoming flesh and the Christ becoming the life giving Spirit.
Each of the three "Persons" (to borrow a limited human language word) was eternally co-existing with each. Yet we also have this side that God went through a process of One becoming the Other in order to dispense and distribute Himself into His redeemed people.
-Removed-I don't know what the "it" refers to but the Word of God says "And the Word BECAME flesh". And it says "the last Adam became a life giving Spirit."
That's God said, not "man made."
But let's consider further. The divine "We" of the Father and the Son come together into the lover of Jesus.
So the ONE God (which I affirm is proclaimed many times) involves the plural pronoun "We" . Don't blame any creed. That's in the word of God.
" Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him,
and We will come to him and make an abode with him." (John 14:23)
I'm sorry but that is what it says.
You have two ________s there.
Now while the "We" of the one God comes to make an abode with the lovers of Jesus, we also have Jesus God's Son as "an Advocate with the Father".
First John 2:1
"My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous."
The One God includes the Father and an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.
And indeed the Christians are called into the fellowship with the Father and the Son.
" ... that you also may have fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ." (1 John 1:3)
We love then the Triune God.
Originally posted by @dj2beckerMore than that. He (and you) were born without a view on God, and consequently developed one. You were born atheists.
You were born without a view on the trinity and have consequently developed one. What convinced you to become a-trinitarian?
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Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeAn atheist has a view on God. If you didn't have one you wouldn't be able to answer any question on the existence of God.
More than that. He (and you) were born without a view on God, and consequently developed one. You were born atheists.